Coco Chanel Quotes
134 Coco Chanel Quotes
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A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel
The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
Coco Chanel
[On Christian Dior] I adore you, but you dress women like armchairs.
Coco Chanel
[On Christian Dior’s ‘New Look’] Look how ridiculous these women are, wearing clothes by a man who doesn’t know women, never had one, and dreams of being one.
Coco Chanel
[On Yves Saint-Laurent] Saint-Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays.
Coco Chanel
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel
Women think of all colors except the absence of color.
Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have when you are twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But is up to you to earn the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
After fifty you have to deserve your face.
Coco Chanel
My friends, there are no friends.
Coco Chanel
Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
Coco Chanel
There are men for whom complication sums up the very image of love.
Coco Chanel
As to telling the truth, every one would be so disillusioned and my life would seem so banal, that I prefer to cling to my legends.
Coco Chanel
Art, conceived as dressmaking, is a pretentious cloak I’ll never wear, it wouldn’t suit me.
Coco Chanel
I think genius in dressmaking principally consists of investing in the summer dresses for winter; and in the winter inventing dresses for summer. That is difficult enough, believe me, without dragging in aesthetics or the sublime.
Coco Chanel
If I love my profession, it is perhaps because it takes the place of all the talents I lack.
Coco Chanel
Not all women have the figure of Venus, yet nothing should be hidden.
Coco Chanel
Pourquoi pas? (Why not?)
Coco Chanel
[When she was well past 80 years of age] I could still wear the clothes I wore as a young girl. Cut off my head, and I’m thirteen years old.
Coco Chanel
It’s always better to be slightly underdressed.
Coco Chanel
All you have to do is subtract.
Coco Chanel
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove on accessory.
Coco Chanel
One shouldn’t spend all one’s time dressing. All one needs are two or three suits, as long as they and everything to go with them are perfect.
Coco Chanel
One ought to be a bit of a fetishist.
Coco Chanel
If I have a certain preference for order, for comfort, for having things done right, for chests filled with linens that smell good… I owe it to my aunts.
Coco Chanel
All those ladies were badly dressed, in their body armor, with their bosoms out, their behinds jutting out too, bound in at the waist until they were almost cut in two. They were dressed to the teeth… still, I didn’t think the cocottes were all that bad. I thought they were pretty with their hats broader than their shoulders, and their big, heavily made-up eyes. They were sumptuous.
Coco Chanel
A child in revolt becomes a person with armor and strength.
Coco Chanel
It’s the mean and nasty aunts who create winners, and give them inferiority complexes, although in my case the result was a superiority complex.
Coco Chanel
Under nastiness looms strength, under pride a taste for success and a passion for grandeur.
Coco Chanel
[On the secret to riding a horse well – Pretend you’re a man with a pair of testicles between you and the saddle and] Under no circumstance can you put an ounce of weight on them.
Coco Chanel
[On rival Paul Poiret asking sarcastically with her wearing black ‘What are you in mourning for, Mademoiselle?] For you, dear Monsieur.
Coco Chanel
[On the husbands of some of her clients] Those grand dukes were all the same. They were tall and handsome and splendid, but behind it all – nothing; just vodka and the void.
Coco Chanel
I lost everything when I lost Capel.
Coco Chanel
Work has always been a kind of drug for me.
Coco Chanel
[In September 1914] A world was dying, while another was being born. I was there, an opportunity came forward and I took it.
Coco Chanel
Yes, when someone offers me a flower, I can smell the hands that picked them.
Coco Chanel
A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel
There is nothing masculine in me.
Coco Chanel
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